History of the Modern World GK online MCQ practice set

Q41. Who represented the bourgeois class in the French society?

A. nobles
B. clergy
C. educated and rich people
D. peasants

Q42. The Oath of Tennis Court was associated with which event

A. russian revolution
B. french revolution
C. american civil war
D. english civil war

Q43. Which European country is considered as the pioneerin Geographical Explorations?

A. england
B. france
C. spain
D. portugal

Q44. ‘Utopia’ is written by

A. shakespeare
B. sir thomas more
C. ben johnson
D. chaucer

Q45. Who is the author of Decameron?

A. dante
B. petrarch
C. cervantes
D. boccaccio

Q46. Name the French ruler who stated, ‘I am the state’

A. louis xiv
B. louis xv
C. henry iv
D. napoleon

Q47. In whose reign did the French Revolution take place?

A. louis iii
B. louis xiii
C. louis xvi
D. louis xv

Q48. Who was responsible for the creation of the first steam engine?

A. john kay
B. george stephenson
C. alexander fleming
D. henry ford

Q49. Who introduced the philosophy of Systematic Doubt as the basis of firm knowledge?

A. vico
B. francis bacon
C. roger bacon
D. rene descartes

Q50. To which country the navigator Columbus belonged

A. spain
B. italy
C. france
D. porugal

Q51. Name the author of the pamphlet Common Sense

A. gibbon
B. voltaire
C. thomas paine
D. benjamin franklin

Q52. The sum total of the philosophy of Rene Descartes is better known as

A. populism
B. cartesianism
C. philosophism
D. social contract

Q53. What was the name given to the first locomotive?

A. rocket
B. sputnik
C. ranger
D. speed star

Q54. Name the dynasty that ruled over France at the time of the Revolution

A. bourbon
B. hohenzollern
C. romanov
D. tudor

Q55. Who authored Leviathan?

A. john locke
B. thomas hobbes
C. voltaire
D. thomas paine

Q56. Which historical development is considered as the child of Renaissance?

A. industrial revolution
B. feudalism
C. capitalism
D. reformation

Q57. With whom the Ninety five theses associated?

A. dante
B. machiavelli
C. martin luther
D. john calvin

Q58. Who was a true representative of the Venetian School of Art?

A. leonardo da vinci
B. titian
C. picasso
D. none of these

Q59. Who authored the book The Monarch?

A. machiavelli
B. kautilya
C. karl marx
D. dante

Q60. Who was the leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland?

A. john calvin
B. ulrich zwingli
C. john huss
D. ignatius loyola